With the help of explosive devices, checklists and diagrams, Acord's "goal was to model the Columbine shootings with some adjustments that would make it a greater success," Haroldson said.The prosecutor said police found six types of explosives in the 17-year-old's possession after they arrested him Thursday night at his mother's house in Albany, Oregon.

How is society going to deal with this? Is it a consequence of video games, media, the internet, change in morals, parenting, families, etc.?

I don't know why Columbine is always referenced. They weren't the first school shooting nor the worst, nor the last. One in 1927 took almost 50 lives. The one at Virginia Tech in '07 took more than 30. Sandy Hook took almost 30. Whenever people talk about school shootings it's always "Columbine" which only took 15 lives. There have been over 80 school shootings since Columbine (in the US).

How is society going to deal with this? Is it a consequence of video games, media, the internet, change in morals, parenting, families, etc.?

Video games, no. Media, no. The internet, no. Change in morals, how you define it depends[1]. Parenting & families, possibly. Though I don't always see parenting as the issue, teachers, class mates, and even people in the community can easily screw somebody up. If you're bullied for example, it's not difficult to see how one could end up feeling helpless and hating everyone as a result, of course not everybody who's been bullied is necessarily going to be led down a dark path, for example, I was bullied and my record is clean (no drugs, drinking, violence), but everybody's different. What better way to get the dicks who make you feel small every day by splattering their guts all over the cafeteria walls? Sure there may be collateral, but they never helped you out when you were down, they never defended you or even cared how you feel or have felt.

Of course, there's other things out there to motivate. However, video games, music, TV, internet and so on, I think they're the scape goats to the real problem. I think as cheesy as it was, Scream was right, horror movies don't make serial killers, it just gives them creativity.

Speaking of bullying, John Fugelsang has a short YouTube video on the topic. His idea is brilliant, basically saying that we have to stop calling it bullying. One of his ideas is to call it "criminal harassment".

Speaking of bullying, John Fugelsang has a short YouTube video on the topic. His idea is brilliant, basically saying that we have to stop calling it bullying. One of his ideas is to call it "criminal harassment".

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Speaking of bullying, John Fugelsang has a short YouTube video on the topic. His idea is brilliant, basically saying that we have to stop calling it bullying. One of his ideas is to call it "criminal harassment".

A good video for the most part - the very end was disappointing to me.

As for his message: To heck with just calling it criminal harassment - report incidents to the police if the school doesn't resolve the problems. If the bullying victim has friends with camera phones, have the friends surreptiously record any incidents they're around for - getting evidence.

I do understand that many bullies are spreading around the pain they have received. That's why the school gets a chance to deal with it first where the bully can possibly be refered for counseling (depending uopn how on the ball the school is).

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